Text messages rose from insults to a murder threat before Andrew Bohnert kicked open a door, stabbed a man in the abdomen, cut two others and beat a woman, according to charges filed Tuesday.

As dawn approached Sunday, Bohnert, 29, burst into a Mechanic Street home to confront his ex-girlfriend — who was there with her new boyfriend and another couple — with the knife he told police he always carries.

Before he was subdued Bohnert stabbed Sean Sindle, threw Nicole Sarnes to the ground with repeated punches to her face and inflicted minor cuts on the other couple, according to the charges.

They totaled one count each of attempted murder, home invasion and criminal damage to property, and three of aggravated battery.

Bohnert, of 1217 S. Fourth St., was ordered held on $500,000 bond pending an April 10 preliminary hearing.

Sindle, 30, of 1507 Mechanic, was released Monday from a Peoria hospital where he had been treated for the stab wound. The other victims required minor medical treatment.

Police found Bohnert covered in blood and sitting in the back seat of a vehicle parked outside the house when they arrived to neighbors’ reports of a fight outside Sindle’s house. He first told them he’d been beaten by five men, according to a prosecutor’s affidavit.

Inside they found Sindle bleeding from his stab wound, along with Bohnert’s other alleged victims. At some point, apparently after his assaults, Bohnert used his knife to puncture tires on both Sindle’s parked vehicle and another owned by next-door neighbors who played no role in the fight, according to the affidavit.

Throughout the night before his assault, Bohnert sent Sarnes insulting text messages. At 5:15 a.m., 15 minutes before he arrived, he warned Sindle by text that he planned to kill the couple, the affidavit stated.

As Sarnes and Sindle sat on a couch, Bohnert kicked open the door, the affidavit stated. Sindle shouted, “Oh, my God, he has a knife!”

Sindle and the other man present wrestled Bohnert back outside where, the affidavit stated, Bohnert threw Sarnes to the ground and began punching her. Neighbors said they heard a woman scream and a man yell, “You just hit a girl!” and watched the two men pull Bohnert off of Sarnes, the affidavit stated.

Sindle didn’t tell police when in the course of the fighting he was apparently stabbed. Bohnert, however, later said, “It’s possible I stabbed Sean,” the affidavit stated.

Bohnert was ordered not to contact any of his four alleged victims and to remain at least 500 feet from Sindle’s and his neighbors’ houses if he posts bond.